(Marisol Collazo is a Managing Director and U.S. CEO of the DTCC Data Repository) Following the September 2009 commitment by G20 leaders to improve the integrity of the markets, reporting of derivatives trades to trade repositories has become critical to regulatory efforts to monitor and detect the build-up of risk in the financial system. To date, a number of jurisdictions around the world have developed rules and regulations requiring mandatory reporting of derivatives to trade repositories. Derivatives trades are being reported to trade repositories in the United States (since 2012), Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia (since 2013), the European…

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